MovePleaze
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I'm trying to fix a Dell Dimension 1501 with Windows Vista 32 Bit Home Basic for a friend. The problem is, when Vista loads I get the Windows Boot Manager screen which tells me to insert the install disc and repair my computer, file boot\bcd status 0xc000000f. When I do that and select repair the problem, a message displays saying that there are problems with your computer's startup options, do you want to repair and restart? I click yes and it takes me to system recovery options and wants me to select an OS.
There's no option to select an OS, it's completely blank as if it doesn't see Vista installed at all. I can either select Load Drivers, which doesn't help me because I don't know what I'm looking at, or click next. If I click next I get to the System Recovery Options.
Startup Repair fails and says it can not fix the problem automatically...looking into the details, it performed a few checks and then failed at the end with No OS files found on disk.
I then went back and tried to do an install from the recovery disk, and that seemed to work, however right at the end it gives me a message saying there was a problem preparing the computer to reboot and that the install failed.
My last resort was to do the factory restore, however upon boot up, I can't even get to the advanced boot up screen by tapping F8 or CTRL + F11 like I've seen in a few other posts.
Can anyone please help me on this one? I'm completely lost on this one.
There's no option to select an OS, it's completely blank as if it doesn't see Vista installed at all. I can either select Load Drivers, which doesn't help me because I don't know what I'm looking at, or click next. If I click next I get to the System Recovery Options.
Startup Repair fails and says it can not fix the problem automatically...looking into the details, it performed a few checks and then failed at the end with No OS files found on disk.
I then went back and tried to do an install from the recovery disk, and that seemed to work, however right at the end it gives me a message saying there was a problem preparing the computer to reboot and that the install failed.
My last resort was to do the factory restore, however upon boot up, I can't even get to the advanced boot up screen by tapping F8 or CTRL + F11 like I've seen in a few other posts.
Can anyone please help me on this one? I'm completely lost on this one.